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by TuringTest 1715 days ago
I'm reading through The Lab Notes from Alexander Obenauer[1], and I'm noticing lots of coincidences. Universal data portability [2] in particular shares the same code insight of reusing all user data in any context where it's needed, and Universal reference containers [3] are the primary use case for my idea of Wit.

With the example interactions in that website you can get very close to what I imagined my system to be (though I would use a "select+tag" metaphor more often than the cumbersome drag&drop).

I still have the idea to allow spreadsheet-like processing on top of those metaphors, but the essence of the system is quite similar to that one; many information systems are converging in that same direction toward a similar model of interaction.

[1] https://alexanderobenauer.com/labnotes/000/

[2] https://alexanderobenauer.com/labnotes/002/

[3] https://alexanderobenauer.com/labnotes/003/